Red Hat 8.0 is only seeing 96Mb of my 128Mb RAM. Can I fix this using grub?
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Red Hat 8.0 is only seeing 96Mb of my 128Mb RAM. Can I fix this using grub?
I read something about fixing the problem with LILO but my system currently is using grub. Do I have to switch to LILO to fix the problem? If not, how do I fix it with grub?
Bootloaders just point the direction to a bootable kernel image, and supply boot parameters, if any. If RH is not recognizing all installed RAM, you need to look into the RH documentation. Look for subjects relatiing to hardware detection, specifically RAM.
It colud also be that the remaining RAM is being used by your video card. It is usually set to 32 MB and you are also missing 32 MB so I guess that this is where the RAM is going.
In effect Linux is detecting your RAM right, you only have 96 MB, the other 32 MB is not counted.
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Red Hat 8.0 is only seeing 96Mb of my 128Mb RAM. Can I fix this using grub?
